
Long-running, family-owned, colorful Mexican eatery is known for its goat stew & homemade tortillas.
Hours
| Friday | 9 AM–8:30 PM |
| Saturday | 8 AM–8:30 PM |
| Sunday | 8 AM–8:30 PM |
| Monday | 9 AM–8:30 PM |
| Tuesday | 9 AM–8:30 PM |
| Wednesday | 9 AM–8:30 PM |
| Thursday | 9 AM–8:30 PM |
Address and Contact Information
Address: 1528 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Phone: (213) 386-7361
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Reviews
For the food, I ordered Carne Asada plate, as I requested they cooked the steak to a perfect medium-rare. And the seasoning of the steak, the beans and rice is on point.
And the inside of this restaurant is cozy, Mexican music playing in the background .
Open kitchen you you can see every bit of action.
I found out about El Parián through Jonathan Gold’s “Counter Intelligence” First Edition 2000 which is a compilation of his Counter Intelligence food reviews in the LA Weekly.
Although Mr. Gold’s reviews don’t always agree with my estimation of the same restaurants (like the disasterous greasy, fried shrimp balls at Johnny’s Shrimp Boat), we are congruent on the intrinsic worth of this birriería on Pico just west of the Harbour Freeway.
Order the bírria, a signature dish of the state of Jalisco, México, and you will receive a steaming bowl of sweet, delicately flavoured roast kid which has small bones in it with parts of the meat being succulent and meaty, and other parts having a rough chaw.
This mass of primordial meat is floating in a wonderously thickened chile infused broth made from the drippings of the roasting goat. The flavour of this broth is the essence of goatiness & goodness.
The bírria is accompanied by a pile of cilantro, chopped onions, dried oregano, lime to enrich the broth. There is a pile of tortillas de maiz so I grabbed some of the meat, put in onions and cilantro to make my own Flauta.
I then dipped the end of the rolled tortilla into the bírria broth like a Mexicanized french dip. (This tastes infinitely better than the french dip sandwich at Phillips where their lamb meat is dry, lifeless and tasteless. The bread is stale, and the jus is weak.)
This bírria is so good that I also drank the broth as an elegant goat consommé. There is something very primal yet sophisticated about the bírria at El Parián. So soul satisfying at a price that is almost too good to be true. (One warning: don’t smell your fingers after eating the goat cuz you’ll smell like one.)
This dish may be the perfect food for hang-overs, and if you get the munchies (wink, wink). Also for those who like King Taco better than El Parián, the temple of Mexican regional cooking, you’ve got to go to Phillipe’s and get their French Dips.
Update: The burrito is awful so bad that I almost choked a couple of times. I asked for a Carne Asada Not chewy tuff meat.